Envisioned as a quiz show in the vein of Challenge Anneka running on BBC 1 from 1989 to 1995 the team were called on to solve archaeological mysteries while racing against the clock. The idea/format needs to be revived by BBC4. , Totally agree have enjoyed this programme since it started. In 1994 January 16th until 2012.rip time team along with mick Aston It announced that after 20 seasons and over 230 episodes the programme was being axed by Channel 4. Thank goodness for DVDs of past episodes. A 15-year-old boy has today been convicted of the murder of Ian Kirwan, 53. Steve Singleton Surely, the way forward would have been to dig deeper into the technical aspects of the archaeology and to speak to the intelligent audience that made the program in the first place whether the sites themselves or the techniques being employed. Tony, Mick,and Phil will be missed. The 67-year-old, best known for playing Baldrick in the BBC comedy series, was knighted in the Birthday Honours list in recognition of his public and political service. What are the 7 ways of measuring pain and pleasure according to Bentham? And that the wild-haired, wild-bearded Mick Aston would be at the centre of the ill feeling was also somewhat unexpected. Home | About | Contact | Copyright | Privacy | Cookie Policy | Terms & Conditions | Sitemap. It is about time ABC Australia got there act together and started to replay ALL the episodes, from the first, so that we dont all go crazy from withdrawal symptoms. Couldnt agree more. The time team has brought history, archaeology, geophys and a devoted team of professionals into my life. Its one of those few things in life that meant so much, really looked forward to every episode. Series Producer and creator of Time Team, Tim Taylor says, "They did it! I think Tony is a good fit for this program. He has become a familiar face on the Channel 4 television series Time Team . It is the programme really. How come journalists never seem to tell us these sorts of things? Screening 13 episodes a year, as well as live digs and specials the programme was ubiquitous. This was a fresh ongoing series with a warm and positive vibe, an interesting treat on TV. I could have watched it for another 20 years. If Channel Four thinks TT too expensive there is mileage in the Return To format for some digs showing some of the original programmes and then updating on subsequent research. Philip Harding DL FSA (born 25 January 1950) is a British field archaeologist. The programme certainly triggered my interest and my wifes interest in Archaeology. I am thrilled that TT is returning in 2022, but saddened that Phil, Raksha and Tony will not be participating. Since 2015, Harding has been an archaeological supervisor for the veteran support charity Waterloo Uncovered, which conducts archaeology on the battlefield of Waterloo alongside veterans and serving personnel. Shades of the quiz-show concept do survive into early episodes of Time Team proper. Tony admitted a number of times that he is not an archeologist. The cast will be sorely missed. September 7, 2014Time Team / Final episode date. The pair bonded on the idyllic Greek island, where Micks aptitude for breathing life into the past convinced Tony that archaeology had untapped television potential. CHANNEL 4 you just do not know what you have done ! You can never run out of history in Britain. But the format changes angered Aston, and he soon quit the show. Were currently watching the last episodes, with the delightfully enthusiastic Francis Pryor, on ABC TV in Melbourne, and we love em, even if there arent always lots of finds. I completely agree with you Lauren. Phew! Such speed was certainly not ideally suited to showcase all of the techniques available to modern archaeologists. I agree entirely. Afterall SA is used to watching loads of rubbish repeats every day!!! I sincerely hope this will be remedied. I didnt always like the reenactments but it was interesting when they dealt with diet and medical issues. A family programe deleted. I was devastated to hear of the demise of this wonderful programme, but once they made the decision to bring in the awful Mary Ann Ochota as a co-presenter, the programme was doomed. It brought the money and expertise to investigate sites that would otherwise never have been touched. To all the people who wrote nasty comments on this forum about it, I leave you with this question why are you on this site at all if you didnt love it like the rest of us? Big Bang (repeat), Simpsons (repeat), Simpsons (another repeat), Maid in Manhattan (good grief!). He became a familiar face on the Channel 4 television series Time Team. Hated that they axed Mick Aston and brought in other new people!!! It is to the Channels credit that it did this despite much of that outlay being channelled into post-excavation work that never appeared onscreen. He also took part in the various spin-off series such as Time Team Extra (1998), Time Team Digs (2002) and Time Team Live. Time Team To Be Reinstated! Written by Phil Harding and John Pooley (of The John Pooley Consultancy) the guide 'Resource Efficiency and Corporate Responsibility - Managing Change' was first produced by the Government Office for the South West (Sustainability & Environmental Technologies Team . Select 'Manage settings' to manage your choices. I hope hell receive belated recognition for that fact. . I have loved it from the first episode and who cares if Tony is a little OTT sometimes, he keeps it entertaining and all together. I liked the pictures Victor did on several shows which showed the principals in historical costumes. Channel 4 manages to produce some really rubbish reality programmes to titivate the youthful masses it hopes to attract. In 2014. Well it seems the bean counters got their way. I have just realised that time team is to be axed by c4. Im sorry no-ones put in a word for the lovely Raksha always good-natured, hard working and incredibly knowledgeable. What a shame to see TT let go. It was season 19 that changed everything. Research digs usually ran for weeks if not months, and it was questioned whether anything approaching responsible archaeology could be achieved in a mere three days. When Time Team came along, I got absolutely hooked on it. Despite some great new people who learnt fast, expecting them to produce the same calibre of product immediately was just too big a demand. I wonder if channel 4 realise how far T.Ts popularity stretches and how informative it is for all ages. Time Team brought archaeology to the publics attention (including mine) and will be sorely missed. It took on all manner of projects, from the bronze age right through to World War II. A group of archaeologists have 3 days to discover historical artifacts in different sites around Britain. I am gutted Time Team is for the chop, I love it!!! Thank you all for giving us years of delight and thank God for DVDs. Years earlier, Sir Mortimer Wheeler did some Archaeology pgms on TV and they were always popular. You only have to look at the demographic to see that a model was not going to be an asset to TT. They tried to make it edgy and the thing I loved about time team was its lack of edginess? It is a great shame it is finishing and I am very sad!! I will have to content myself with watching the 4OD repeats for ever now. of Tonys and Phils hair. too, although not often. What am I going to do now knowing there isnt an unending stream of new TTs to feed my addiction? Still, we liked to watch something online every now and than rather than read a book, play a game or just talk to each other and thats when my husband showed me the first episodes of Time Team, which he remember from his youth. TT had a great following here in Canada. Image: Wessex Archaeology. axed is their a petition running ????? The obvious situation is that if it kept to the original cast ( which it did not ), then there would be a problem immediately when someone left, or passed on. WHY? But its also the fact that they didnt just impart accumulated knowledge, they made new discoveries as we watched. Prof Aston was on long-running show for 19 . Jim Mower (development producer, see his opinion piece here) believes that Phil Hardings material was among the most innovative. This was highlighted by having a member of the public read out a letter of invitation at the beginning, posing the question they wanted answered. The thing that should be axed is the TV exec that made that decision. INCREDIBLE ! Yes please BBC4 or anyone sensible Time Team will always be popular if you listen to Tony (yes I am a fan) Mick and Phil and Helen (yes I am an even bigger fan of these guys). It also produces some amazing factual programmes to expand our knowledge and it is extremely worrying that the latter are being sacrificed for moronic programmes like Big Fat Gypsy Wedding which add nothing to our cultural enlightenment. We, Yahoo, are part of the Yahoo family of brands. Its put me very on edge not to know where Im up to and I think Channel 4 should be funding my medication for hypertension, blurred vision (tears I think) and severe withdrawal already before its ended. i say dont be too quick to make a stupid decision. Totally gutted Time Team is going. My 100year old mother started,me on T.T.years ago & in turn my children and now the grandchildren watch ,ask questions and research . Tim Taylor recalls that some archaeologists were initially, quite fairly, a bit sceptical. One aspect that some treated with suspicion was the three-day deadline. I would be very happy, if it was revived. So my husband looked for more info. Indeed, the only affectation on Time Team was Micks famous stripy jumper. Partly, we all feel we are losing old friends after all this time but theres so much trash on TV that its no surprise that its loss is so keenly felt. I have only lately discovered time team and I love it I record as many episodes as I can and I think all of the cast make the show I was never interested in archeology but I am addicted now just watchedthe Salisbury plain one with the soldiers who are coping with life and one said that watching TT helped hime to relax and began to enjoy life again I really didnt like that nasty dendrochronologist who wouldnt show his results though idiot! Tony used the rest of the Teams expertise to bring to life what was often regarded as a crusty subject before Time Teams arrival. That executive was not recruited from the intellectual highbrow Channel 5 was he? Yes, Tony R was sometimes (often?) An unrepentant Phil Harding was heard to shout as he was bundled into a police van: "I'd do 'er again!". Victor is a great artist and bought sites to life. Speaking to Express.co.uk, Tony said he won't be. Time Team went out of fashion because the rest of us got sick of being patronised by Tony Robinson, who seemed incapable of letting an entire episode pass without a snide comment or a sermon about man-made global warming. Special thanks also to the fantastic people behind the research, graphics, computer animation that added so much to each episode. Required fields are marked *. Much as I still love watching them (though, annoyingly, More 4 often shows the same programme a week later), I can hardly bear to think there will be no more new ones. Raksha Dave from Time Team is part of it. What a pity we had to endure that young lady fashion model who merely read her script for a couple of episodes. | Phoenix the Dreamer, https://digventures.com/2013/03/tools-down-for-time-team-raksha-dave-on-the-end-of-an-era-and-her-new-adventure/, Remarkable early medieval burial found in Northamptonshire, Under the Old Fort of Zanzibar: exploring the origins of Stone Town, History of Sheffield Castle foundations revealed by archaeologists. Piss-up and brewery certainly spring to mind. Imagine Harrison Ford as an ageing hippy with a Wessex burr after several pints of real ale . Watching how the team coalesce over time and their skills mature. It was my favourite show for many years and definitely, for me, left so many other scientifically accurate but boring-as-bat-poo documentaries in its dust. But they never advertised Time Team in between other programmes as they do with some other programmes, and they are always mucking about with the times it is shown. John has kept on top of technical advances, and the results of his survey of Brancaster Roman fort provide one of the outstanding moments in the forthcoming season 20. Maybe it was better to end the show before they replaced the entire cast with celebrities from TOWIE. There is nothing else like it on TV. Placing viewers at the heart of the action would become a Time Team hallmark. Your email address will not be published. It has made the subject of archaeology interesting and accessible for everyone and if they were still activetheres an interesting mound that desperately needs investigating at the end of our road. I am still quite happy to watch repeats on Sky. Time team is irreplaceable. They will be joined by new faces representing the breadth of experts practising archaeology today. It will be sad for it to end, but theres still a few epsiodes I havent seen. Us all. There are only about a thousand signatures so far.Personally, although I have signed, I dont think it will do much good. Yes TR can be intensely irritating at times, but as the years have gone by I think his appreciation of the experts has increased and they have learned skills from him about presentation. The writing was on the wall when it regularly began featuring cleavage shots of diggers and the dreaded re-enactments. It was over when Mick went AWOL. During that time he deduced the towns Medieval layout.